# An Instant AI World Takeover Is Preposterous by Yann LeCun > "That's the preposterous scenario." > **— Yann LeCun**, *2024, TIME interview on AI takeover scenarios* *Verification Status: Editorially quarantined — `the preposterous scenario` is absent from the quotation. Recover a complete, self-contained passage before promotion.* ## Sources and Context - **Full interview and context:** [Meta's AI Chief Yann LeCun on AGI, Open-Source, and AI Risk](https://time.com/6694432/yann-lecun-meta-ai-interview/) — LeCun calls the scenario in which one giant computer is switched on and takes over the world the next minute “preposterous,” while separately acknowledging many ways to build dangerous or useless AI. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/Authorship After the Threshold|Authorship After the Threshold]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Yann LeCun|Yann LeCun]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "That's the preposterous scenario." — Yann LeCun, 2024, TIME interview on AI takeover scenarios https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-yann-lecun-preposterous-scenario ```